Ida May (skipjack)

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IDA MAY
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location: Upper thorofare, Chance, Maryland
Coordinates: 38°10′10″N 75°56′49″W / 38.16944°N 75.94694°W / 38.16944; -75.94694Coordinates: 38°10′10″N 75°56′49″W / 38.16944°N 75.94694°W / 38.16944; -75.94694
Built/Founded: 1906
Architectural style(s): Skipjack
Governing body: Private
MPS: Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR
Added to NRHP: May 16, 1985
NRHP Reference#: 85001077

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The Ida May is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1906 at Urbanna or Deep Creek, Virginia. She is a 42.2 foot long two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of 14.4', a depth of 3.3', and a net register tonnage of 7. She is one of the 35 surviving traditional Chesapeake Bay skipjacks and a member of the last commercial sailing fleet in the United States. She is located at Chance, Somerset County, Maryland.[2]

She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15. http://www.nr.nps.gov/. 
  2. "Maryland Historical Trust". IDA MAY(skipjack). Maryland Historical Trust. 2008-06-14. http://www.mht.maryland.gov/nr/NRDetail.aspx?HDID=871&COUNTY=Somerset&FROM=NRCountyList.aspx?COUNTY=Somerset. 

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